THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 26 OCTOBER 1972

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005993592
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• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: October 26, 1972

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The President's Daily Brief
26 October 1972
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
26 October 1972
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
One of the top three Lao Communist leaders has joined
the Pathet Lao negotiating team, a further sign that
the Lao Communists believe the time is right for se-
rious peace negotiations. (Page 1)
\ Cuba/
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Tito's,purge of the Serbian party has begun with the
"resignations" over the weekend of party chief Nikezic
and his deputy. (Page 3)
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Iraq.] Soviet
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One of the top three Lao Communist leaders,
Phoumi Vongvichit, has joined the Pathet Lao nego-
tiating team.
His presence as "special adviser" on the
delegation is a further sign that the
Lao Communists believe the time is right
for serious peace negotiations.
Both the government and the Communists have now
assumed bargaining positions based on their well-
'known public views on political issues. At the sec-
ond session of the talks on 24 October the chief
Communist negotiator, although castigating the gov-
ernment for lack of "good will and realism," held
out the hope of constructive dialogue by admitting
that "certain points" in Vientiane's position are
"capable of bringing us together."
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NOTES
Yugoslavia: Tito's purge of the Serbian party
has begun with the "resignations" over the weekend
of party chief Nikezic and his deputy.- A wider
purge is in the offing in Serbia and may spread. to
the Vojvodina autonomous province--whose party is
affiliated with the Serb organization--and where
the party leadership is also under attack for fail-
ure to heed Tito's orders to recentralize party
authority. Tito's plans for a radical tightening
of party discipline from the federal level on down,
may also be leading to a. growth-ofjparty factional-
ism on a local level in other sections of the coun-
try.
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